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'File II/1 Appointment of Political Agents' [42r] (87/392)
The record is made up of 1 file (199 folios). It was created in 5 Oct 1900-5 Feb 1917. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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4th Class until 20 of his seniors on the General List
have made wa^r for him by leaving the I/epartment.
4. Your petitioner submits that the chief reason for the
slowness of ^ronotion amongst the Military Officers of
the old Political department is the fact that so many
gentlemen have been introduced at a comparatively late
stage from other Services, accelerating as a rule the
promotion in the Provinces or Departments which they have
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left# while causing the utmost xaortification to the
officers of the •'most varied and responsible service in
the world* f whom they supersede.
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5. In your petitioner's case there are 16 officers who
have thus been graded over his head on the old depart
mental List# and if t,he services of all these gentlemen
were indispensable on particular and special grounds, he
subtests that an invitation xnifirht have been issued to the
officers superseded, in turn, to transfer their services
to the Department from which the intruder was being
brought. In the oases of introductions from the i-'unjab
and mrma Commissions there seems little doubt that such
an invitation wojild have readily been accepted durinp the
past few years by junior members of the Political Lepart-
ment.
6. Your petitioner thereiore humbly prays
(a) That he may be given equality of treatment in the
Department with members of the Indian Civil Service as has
bsen given to Military officers transferred from the
J^unjab Commission.
(b) That, if all the officers of the Department are to be
brought on to one list, they may be classified strictly
according to the date of their Civil service, and all
further recruitments may be brought in at the bottom of-
the list. But that, if two lists are to be maintained,
your petitioners position on Dist B may be so improved
as to bring him into the its: 1500/- grade and thus make him Eke.
equal of his contemporaries in Civil service on List A,
and to effect this last he can only sugrest that:-
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This file contains correspondence between the British Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and the British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire, as well as with the Comptroller of India Treasuries; Secretary and Treasurer of the Bank of Bombay; Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynymound, Viceroy and Governor General of India; and Sheikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, ruler of Qatar. These correspondence concern the appointment of the first Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and Political Agents between 1900 and 1916, including:
- John Calcott Gaskin (February 1900 - October 1904)
- Francis Beville Prideaux (October 1904 - May 1909
- Charles Fraser Mackenzie (May 1909 - November 1910)
- Stuart George Knox (November 1910 - April 1911)
- David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (April 1911 - November 1912)
- Arthur Prescott Trevor (November 1912 - May 1914)
- Terence Humphrey Keyes (May 1914 - March 1916)
- Hugh Stewart (March 1916 - June 1916)
- Trenchard Craven William Fowle (July 1916 - November 1916)
- Percy Gordon Loch (November 1916 - February 1918)
Contained within the correspondence are notifications of appointments, including the appointment of the first Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in 1900 and copies of Charge Certificates signed by the outgoing and incoming Agents; details regarding designation of positions, including the raising of the post to Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in 1905 and usage of the vernacular term al-balyūz ; details concerning pay and allowances; specimens of signatures; examples of various 'Last Pay Certificate for Gazetted Officers Proceeding on Duty to Another Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. or Province or to Another Place in the Same Province'; and documentation regarding policy and regulations for admissions into the Political Department, including a notification entitled 'Rules regulating the admission of junior military officers to the Political Department of the Government of India' dated 31 August 1914.
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- 1 file (199 folios)
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This file is arranged approximately in chronological order.
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Foliation: There is one incomplete foliation sequence and one complete sequence. The complete sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1. There are then three blank folios before the sequence resumes on number 2 and runs through to 193, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume.
Condition: Some of the text in this volume is difficult to read due to insect damage and torn pages.
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- IOR/R/15/2/51
- Title
- 'File II/1 Appointment of Political Agents'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:4v, 5ar:5bv, 6r:30v, 31ar:31bv, 32r:60v, 61ar:61bv, 62r:171v, 173r:178v, 180r:187v, 188ar:188bv, 189r:192v, back-i, back
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